August 2007Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees' alleged that U.S. violated its own rules in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals after it labeled hundreds of prisoners as enemy combatants.
October 2, 2015The United States government moved to dismiss a lawsuit brought on behalf of Yemenis killed by a U.S. drone strike, arguing U.S. courts do not have the power to review “national security” or “foreign...
Introduction | About the Authors | Table of Contents | How to Order the Book | Find Documents | Updates INTRODUCTION This in an excerpt from the Introduction of International Human Rights Litigation...
Updated: July 13, 2009
District Court Found CDCR Had Violated Settlement, but Appellate Panel Reversed August 31, 2020, San Francisco – Today, men who sued the state of California for imprisoning them in solitary...
June 27, 2018...This is the process many Yemenis must undergo to obtain US visas, explains Diala Shamas, a staff attorney at the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights. The center oversees the Yemeni...
Supreme Court to Consider Whether U.S. Corporations May Be Held Liable for International Violations October 22, 2020, Washington, D.C. – Fifteen international human rights organizations submitted a...
On the eighth episode of The Activist Files, Center for Constitutional Rights Advocacy Program Manager Nahal Zamani speaks with S’bu Zikode, a founding member and president of Abahlali baseMjondolo,...
Updated: February 26, 2019
United States v. Dellinger is a criminal case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) challenged the Justice Department’s misuse of the grand jury process in conducting its investigation...
Updated: October 9, 2007
Join Katherine Gallagher , senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, on Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST as she speaks on the California Lawyers Association...
Updated: August 10, 2020
Please join us as the Center for Consitutional Rights and co-counsel argue before Judge Brinkema against CACI's motions to dismiss the case under the state secrets privilege and for lack of...
Updated: February 13, 2019
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